Wednesday, April 22, 2009

U.S. urged to focus on governance in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ashraf Ghani, a contender in August presidential elections, credited President Barack Obama with taking steps to create a "second chance" to build a stable Afghanistan after lost years since the U.S. invasion in 2001.

"To commit more forces in this time is an act of both courage and statesmanship," the former World Bank and U.N. official said in remarks at the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington.

Ghani, author of a new Atlantic Council report on Afghanistan, said, however, that "forces in themselves are not the answer. It is the strategy that is going to use them that is the issue."

"The game changer is to produce a legitimate election that the next government of Afghanistan can have a mandate," said Ghani, who is seen as an outside contender in the August 20 presidential vote. U.S. urged to focus on governance in Afghanistan

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